SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
' (by intEGfiArii—riiEss Dissociation.)' ' Napier, Jlarch 3. . A.t the Supreme Courts Hugh: Hamilton was _ sentenced ;'to foiir years' imprisonment for indoxsnt assault on a child at Woodville. "I make that punishment," His' Honour said, "because it is. deserved, and, in thp nop.o '.13 will bq ■ a ; warning '.to other evil-minded men liko you." : v .Other sentences . were: —Arthur Rouso, forgery 'and' .uttering ..at, Hastings, sjs months; Ethel, Olson, arson at Farndon, twelve months' probation; Gilbert Broad; attempted suicide," his father and prisoner to onter into bond of £50 for twelvemonths.^ • MATENGA ACQUITTED OF HORSE ' : STEALING. (BY TELEGRAPH —MESS ASSOCIATION.') ' Cisboro?, March, 3. ; At the Supreme Court, tc-day Ira Toto was admitted to probation'for two years on 3 charge of the theft ol a cheque. Daisy Simmelhag and Winnie M'Neil, alias Wolfe, were acquitted on. a charge of - the theft' of-..'a bookmaker'sticket, worth £9, and. a rolled-gold watch ,from the person of . one Goldsmith, at the Gisborue Racing Club's Meeting.' ■ Hare Matonga, . who evaded arrest for a nvmber of years, was acquitted on a charge of; stealing'a horse in* 1902. Two charges of theft from a dwelling will be taken against Matenga in the morning'.'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 137, 4 March 1908, Page 5
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